Tag: Marianne van den Boomen

  • Marianne van den Boomen at IR 9.0

    The next talk I saw was Marianne’s; a much more developed version of the research she presented at New Network Theory in Summer ’07. The title this time was “E-sociability metaphors:From virtual community to social network and beyond,” and looked at the evolution of metaphors used to describe social relationships on the Internet. The most…

  • Finishing up with Marianne

    So I will get back to this at last and wrap things up from this interview a little more quickly so I can get to the next ones of the women, plus I still have Brenno and Florian to add, and I then have to actually do the interviews with Jaromil, Mirko, and maybe some…

  • Marianne van den Boomen part 2

    So, more from Marianne… First her account of how she encountered the internet: The Internet came into view in 1993, when I attended the famous Hacking at the End of the Universe camp (the HEU, as it is called) in a Dutch nowhere land polder, organized by the hacker-techno-anarchists of Hacktic (later called Xs4all, still…

  • Summer Research

    So I am once again traveling to the Netherlands to do some research, scraping away at these interviews, as many as I can cram into about ten days without going insane. I leave on 23 June and go directly to University of Twente where I will meet Elfi Ettinger in person (one of my IR…